A comprehensive report on “Virtual machines and Dalvik VM internals” is uploaded to EASIP resource section. The report contains basics about a virtual machine and its functionality. It describes the Dalvik VM and its respective byte codes. A comparison between Dalvik and Java virtual machine...
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Yes, this is true that Nokia is going to launch Symbian as Open source. It is not confirmed but according to my information, it is going to happen soon in the future. My perception is that Nokia has read the message very clearly written on the Wall. THe message is that in the future it will be very difficult...
An important aspect of Information technology is to reduce the geographical boundaries among various parts of the country. A person living in a very rural and far away region area of Pakistan, if provided reasonable IT infrastructure, will not travel to the capital and thus will reduce his/her time as...
HTC (the guys who built the first Android phone for T-Mobile) have released a new Android-based smartphone called Hero. It’s an amazing piece of technology and looks really cute. We’ll be trying to get our hands on this one but only if it’s not SIM-locked. Not likely, since HTC is a...
The following article is a good introduction into the scope of Android and what technology Google is to enable for the near future.
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/android-netbooks-on-their-way-likely-by-2010/
It seems that Android has yet to get mature and it wont be until next year that it will be...
This is somewhat old news but Ubuntu is now aiming at mobile platforms with ARM processors. The article mentions that a port of Ubuntu for Intel’s Atom processor is already available. It remains to be seen whether providing a PC distribution on the contemporary smart phone will be enough. I don’t...
“VMware on Monday extended its virtualization platform to the mobile phone platform with the unveiling of its VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform based on a previously unannounced acquisition it closed last month.The new platform lets mobile phone users work with multiple virtual phones at the...
SACMAT 2009 call for papers is out:
http://www.sacmat.org/2009/date.php
* January 16
o Deadline for submission of paper
* January 16
o Deadline for submission of panel proposal
* March 6
o Acceptance notification
* March 31
o Deadline for camera-ready copies of the accepted papers
* June 3-5
o SACMAT...
Mobilware in Berlin, Germany:
http://www.mobilware.org/cfp.shtml
Important Dates
Paper Submission Due Date: November 23, 2008
Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2009
Camera Ready Versions Due: February 20, 2009
Conference...
Backing up OpenMoko FR before bricking it and getting your custom kernel and rootfs onto it …
September 14th, 2008 By
shazkhan
After successfully configuring Open Embedded http://recluze.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/getting-started-with-openmoko/, the build environment for OpenMoko, we want to try our custom built kernel and rootfs. Although, we will be using Micro SD card to run our custom builds rather than the flash still we...